Hacker News: marrone12

New comment by marrone12 in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

marrone12 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:09:15 +0000

It's not collateral damage in the gaza war. This was a family in the west bank, where there is no hamas and no "war", that was gunned down in cold blood for no reason. Not even presenting a threat. I hope one day you are able to find compassion.

New comment by marrone12 in "GPT-5.4"

marrone12 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:06:54 +0000

Yep. There was something outside of coding that gpt was plain wrong about (had to do with setting up an electric guitar) and I couldn't convince it that it was wrong.

New comment by marrone12 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

marrone12 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:32:45 +0000

I remember sitting on my friend's couch drinking beer when they announced the iPad and debating if it was ever going to be popular. Time marches on.

New comment by marrone12 in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

marrone12 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:14:29 +0000

Same, except for me Zed is one of the only editors that has emacs keybindings!

New comment by marrone12 in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

marrone12 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:14:45 +0000

Advertising is not a recent evolution of capitalism, it's a foundational piece of it. Whatever you do as a job would not exist if there was no one marketing it. This hostility seems insane.

New comment by marrone12 in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

marrone12 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 19:35:11 +0000

Is there a way to use this with a remote windows VM that I connect with over RDP?

New comment by marrone12 in "Stripe acquires Lemon Squeezy"

marrone12 — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:48:36 +0000

It's nice for start ups to have liquidity events.

New comment by marrone12 in "Amazon Sold a Used Diaper. It Tanked a Mom-and-Pop Business"

marrone12 — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 15:37:21 +0000

But when you sell with Amazon, you cede quality control to their fulfillment.

New comment by marrone12 in "A corrupt file led to the FAA ground stoppage – also found in backup system"

marrone12 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 06:13:55 +0000

The CBC is great. I watch the news show every night even as an American.

New comment by marrone12 in "NYC Slice"

marrone12 — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:46:03 +0000

Better than bagel pub??

New comment by marrone12 in "Musk’s inner circle worked through weekend to cement Twitter layoff plans"

marrone12 — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:28:15 +0000

Generally when running these kinds of tests you measure for further down the funnel metrics than sign ups. It's obvious sign ups would increase. In all the tests I've done around this, you look either at revenue or engagement over a longer term.

New comment by marrone12 in "Apple says iPhones will switch to USB-C chargers to comply with new EU law"

marrone12 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:55:25 +0000

They do from MFi certified cables. You have to pay apple a licensing fee. and the non licensed cables will sometimes give you an error.

New comment by marrone12 in "Apple says iPhones will switch to USB-C chargers to comply with new EU law"

marrone12 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:54:43 +0000

I've only had 1 lightning cable die on me in over 10 years of owning iPhones, and it was a heavily abused cable.

New comment by marrone12 in "Building a Startup on Clojure"

marrone12 — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:53:28 +0000

One thing to note about coding in Clojure — if you never learned Java, you hit a wall at a certain point. I only know scripting languages and I had fun writing little scripts in clojure, but at a certain point the lack of java knowledge and it's class system / standard libraries held me back from doing more serious things.

New comment by marrone12 in "Remote startups will win the war for top talent"

marrone12 — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:51:29 +0000

Just FYI, it's "rapport" not "repor"

New comment by marrone12 in "Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR"

marrone12 — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 18:44:39 +0000

The second point doesn't make sense at all. Consumers vastly prefer standalone VR, and it was always the future.

For the first point, I'll give you that they prefer playing on their own platform. But they haven't "broken" anything. While yes you do need a software layer, e.g. Revive, you can still play steam games on oculus and oculus games on an index. And you have no idea whether that would have happened anyway as one of these companies got bigger.

Google used to say "do no evil" and now they don't, and they didn't get acquired before they changed. These things just happen.

New comment by marrone12 in "Meta Accounts: A New Login for VR"

marrone12 — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 17:27:25 +0000

What exactly did they "do" to oculus besides give them a ton of funding and try to bring them into the mainstream?

New comment by marrone12 in "Ask HN: How can we lay people off without cruelty?"

marrone12 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 22:37:14 +0000

One, be as transparent as possible, as early as possible. Hopefully your company has not been hiding that there are financial problems so that it won't come as a huge surprise that layoffs are happening. If you haven't done this yet, please start communicating. You do not necessarily need to tell the whole company that layoffs are happening, but you do need to tell them that this might happen.

Two, avoid saying anything about how hard this was for you. They do not care.

It is definitely best to tell people in person, and individually. I don't have any advice as to how to do so in a small space. It is for the best to restrict access to sensitive systems once a person is laid off, but you can keep them access to slack or email so people can say goodbye if they'd like.

New comment by marrone12 in "Julia ranks in the top 5 most loved programming languages for 2022"

marrone12 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 16:29:15 +0000

This article gives a handy method to account for exactly what you're asking https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...

New comment by marrone12 in "PSA: HelloFresh doesn't delete data when asked, only changes the email address"

marrone12 — Thu, 26 May 2022 17:03:46 +0000

This is generally standard practice for e-commerce companies, is it not?